Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

was sentenced to twelve years in the
penitentiary. April p, In saloon fight,
he bit off part Of Phillip Welch's ear
while the two were clinched, and, in the
excitement of the moment. swallowed it.
THE saloon and dwelling house of
George Mason, colored, at Nicholasville,
KY, was blown up on the morning of the
18th by dynamite bomb. His family oc-
cupied the upper story, but escaped un-
hurt. An old grudge existed between
Mason and others, and to this is attribut-
ed the motive for the outrage.
THE largest real estate TRANSACTION 8
ever recorded in st. Louis were con-
summated on the 9TH. SamuelF. Scott, of
Kansas City, purchased Mrs Tyler's
estate for 1000, and $780, 600 was paid
for the GriswoId tract by an Eastern
syndicate.
THE twenty-frst annual SEES sion OF the
Missouri State Press Association con-
vened in Jefferson City on the 9TH, in the
hall OF the House Of Representatives. The
attendance was unusually large, some
thing over one hundred editors being
present, together with large number of
ladies'.
The illness Of Mr.. W. W. Corcoran, the
venerable philanthropist of Washington,
draws attention to his many munifcient
gifts to charitable objects. 1t is said these
have aggregated quite seven million dol.
lars altogether, his public gifts alone in
sums ranging from $1,000 upwards,
amounting to something over Sc, 100000.
THE health Of the German Emperor and
| Crown Prince is reported as improved.
STANLEY is said to be making good
progress through Africa to the relief of
Emin Bey.
AN explosion OF fire-damp occurred in a
coal pit at Gelsenkirchen, in Westphalia,
on the Sth. Sixty-three miners are re-
ported killed. Over forty bodies have
been recovered.
THE American Protestant Association
began its thirty seventh annual session at
Washin gton on the Sth.
The evidence against the alleged Nc
Neil Tex.) train robbers failed and they
have all been discharged.
THE Navy Department has ordered a
court of inquiry to ascertain the circum-
stances of the death Of Lieutenant Clarke,
On board the United States steamship
IroquGs.
SECRETARY WHITNEY took p party of
personal friends from New York and
| Washington to Annapolis by special car
| on the 9th to witness the closing exercises
of the Naval Academy.
A COMPETITIVE examination for post
Office inspectors will be held at W ashing-
| ton June %. Forty-seven applications
| be filled.
THE statement that Mr. Jay Gould was
seriously i'll at Fortress Monroe was with
| out foundation, 'Jay Gould, Mrs. Gould
and a party of friends" were at the Riggs
House in Washington on the Sth, all well
GEORGE j. GOULD, having been elected
president of the Pacific Mail, is the
| youngest man that ever held so important
| an Office. 1t is novelty in Wall street to
see man of twenty-five at the head of a
| corporation of S20,000,000
The treasury is but partly able to sup
ply the demands of the banks, especially
of New York, for one and two dollar GER
tifcates. The increased appropriation for
| their manufacture will not be available
until July 1, after which it is stated the
supply will be equal to the demand.
CHARLES D. SPENCER, one of the bes t
known men in Dakota, was indicted at
Pierre, on the Sth, by the grand-j ury on
the charge of cattle stealing
THE jury in the case of Adolph Reich, at
New York, who confessed that he had
killed his wife, but claimed that it was
done in self-defense, brought in a verdict
of murder in the first degree with a
recommendation to mercy.
THE Pittsburgh & Western Road was
sold by the United States Marshal at
Pittsburgh, on the Sth, under order of
court, for 81, 0OO, 900. 1t was purchased by
parties interested in the reorganization
scheme.
THE dwelling of A. Brown, at Bradford,
Ont, was burned on the 8th. Four small
children, all under 10 years Of age, per-
ished in the flames. The parents, with q
baby, barely escaped with their lives.
AT an early hour on the morning of the
Sth j. w. White, a prominent resident of
in a at ia To I'd
the Susquehanna river at Forty Fort,
was drowned. His body was found.
Mrs. MARY OUTwArER WHITE, daughter
of the late Pete Outwater, of Syracuse,
N. Y, and wife Of ex-President Andrew
D. White, of Cornell University, fell de ad
after leaving the breakfast room at her
home in Ithaca, N. Y, on the Sth, of
paralysis of the heart. She was fifty
seven years old.
make no more whisky until October, 1888.
REPORTS from Berlin are to the effect
that the German Emperor's health is be-
coming alarmingly feeble.
THE American Bankers Association
has decided to hold it's convention at Pitts
burgh, Pa. October IL and IS next
GERMAN capitalists are endeavoring to
purchase the Inter-Colonial railroad from
the Canadian Government.
PRINCE ARMAND DE POLIO MAC declares
that General LIE Flo has told only the
tru tb in his assertion that Germany was
restrained by Russia from attacking
France in 1875.
CHARLES D. KEEP, editor of the Wal
Street Neacs, died on the morning of the 9th
at Long Branch, n. J.
THE Grant Monument Association has
issued a circular calling for designs for a
monument or memorial building to be
erected upon the site of General Grants
tomb.
THE German bark Elsa from Whining
ton, N. c., April 90, for London, was
picked up in the English channel and
lowed to Dungeness, where she sank. 1t
is supposed she was damaged by COLI
sion. Nothing is known of her crew.
FREDERICK HERMAN, the religious fan
attic, who murdered his child, tried to kill
his wife and then cut his own throat at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, died at the
West Penn hospital on the 9th. Mrs. Herr
mann's condition is still serious, but she
will recover.
THE Earl of Wiuchelsea and Noting
ham died on the 9th. He was seventy
two years old.
THE steamer Nonowantuck, which left
Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the night of the
Sth for Port Jefferson with a large ex-
cursion, who were going over to see Bar
NUNS, ran ashore in the lower harbor on
account of the dense fog that prevailed
Her passengers were compelled to re-
main aboard until eight o'clock on the
morning of the 9th, when they were TAX
en- off by the steamer Annie.
A PoNTsNo (Ariz.) dispatch says: The
Indians crossed the railroad track mile
west Of here on the 9th, and are hotly
pursued by Johnson's and Lawton's coS-
mands. They are heading north for the
Santa Catalina mountains.
TIE weather at Ascot heath on the 9th